Finishing machine for boots or shoes



Feb. 264929. 1,703,480

' J. DEVLEMINCK FINISHING MACHINE FOR BOOTS OR SHOES Filed March 18. 1925 Patented Feb. 26, 1929.

UNITED STATESv JOSIlTlPI-l;l DEVLEMINCK, OF HAL, BELGIUM.

FINISHING MACHINE FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

Application filed March 18, 1925, Serial- No. 16,351, and in Belgium March 31, 1924.

This invention relates to a finishing ma'- chine for use in the foot wear industry in general and more particularly to machines for rasping soles .fitted with recessed or Louis XV heels.

Hitherto t-he rasping tool has been mounted on the end of a shaft which receives di-` i rectly a rotary movement by means of a driving pulley; this method of mounting the rasping tool at the end of' a comparatively lengthy shaft does not however enable the part of the sole which is attached to the heel to be rasped; in fact, the shaft prevents the bootor shoe being given the necessary inclination for this operation.

By this invention this disadvantage is avoided by mounting for this purpose the rasping tool on a shaft of reduced length to allow contact of the tool with the whole sole.

The short shaft is offset relatively to a driving shaft and driven therefrom by the intermediary of a gearing, a pulley or other means. The length of the rasp carrying shaft and the format-ion of its supporting/ bearings are such that the boot or shoemay be turned and inclined so that the whole edge of the sole littedto the heel may be operated on by the said tool.

The accompanying drawing illustrates more or less diagrammatically as an example, a machine constructed inVV conformity with i this invention/f" Referring/to this drawing, l l is the frame of the machine, 2 the upper part of this frame which serves at its two ends as a bearing for ya horizontal shaft 3. i The latter carries in the usual way the loose and driving pulleys 41, 42,

and on the other end jof this shaft 3 a toothed' wheel 51 is mounted which gears with a wheel of smaller diameter 52 keyed. on a short shaft 6, one end of which extends beyond the the rasp 7 and of the sheath 21 is sufliciently reduced to allow of the edge of the sole along the heel of the boot or shoe S being worked on by the tool 7 along its whole periphery,

even along the line of connection 81 with the i It is evident that the way in which the rotary movement is transmitted to the shaft 6 which carries the tool may be varied according to the makers wish; this transmission may be effected by means of gearing, or by means of pulleys or the like, but it is always necessary to reduce the length of the shaft 6 sufficiently to allow the tool 7 to have access to the connecting' surface between the vheel and the sole. e

Similarly the form of the frame and that ofthe sheath 21 and of other details of con- Vstruction rand mounting may be varied without thereby departing from the scope of this invention.

. I claim A machine for rasping the soles of boots upper end thereof, a driving shaft in said,

tubularbar, a vertically disposed bracket on one end of said bar having a. downwardly disposed portion eXtended below the bar, a bear ing in the downwardly disposed portion of said bracket, a short shaft supported in said bearing, means for driving the short shaft from the drive shaft, and a rasping tool pro vided with a toothed periphery carried by the outer end of said short shaft adapted because of its mounting for engagement with the peripheral portions of the soles Aoperated upon including those portions disposed at the heel ends thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

. JOSEPH DEVLEMINCK. 

